Allegra Kirkland

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Allegra Kirkland is a New York-based reporter for Talking Points Memo. She previously worked on The Nation’s web team and as the associate managing editor for AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter @allegrakirkland.

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CNN interrupted a newscast on Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether airplane debris found off an island in the Indian Ocean may belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared in March 2014.

The video of George W. Bush sitting blankly in a Florida elementary school classroom after learning that a hijacked airplane had crashed into the Twin Towers is an indelible part of Americans’ collective memory of Sept. 11, 2001. But newly released photographs taken throughout that day paint a fuller picture of how senior Bush administration officials handled the catastrophic news.

Two veterans tackled an elderly protester and tore a sign reading “The Emperor Benghazi Has No Clothes” from his hands during President Obama’s Tuesday speech on veterans’ issues in Pittsburgh. Video footage by NBC captured the brief scuffle, which occurred as Obama was addressing the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush grace the cover of next week’s issue of TIME magazine. A preview of their interview released Thursday suggests it will focus on the 2016 presidential campaign, in which Clinton’s wife Hillary and Bush’s brother Jeb are running for the Democratic and Republican nominations, respectively.

Former Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) has no patience for presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Twitter posturing. In response to Trump’s tweet calling Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) a “dummy” who should be defeated in next year’s primary election, Dingell fired back with a simple response: “Delete your account.”